“Tou-lou-sains!” Everything healthy! » Some 10,000 voices resounded on Wednesday 18 September, late in the evening, on the Place du Capitole, to welcome twenty-eight athletes from the city and the metropolis who will take part in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, like the Stade Toulouse rugby team. The players, accustomed to partying on the balcony of the town hall, fifteen medallists brandished their prizes in front of the public, before enjoying a public bath.
The “locals” have won 10 of the 64 Olympic medals won by the French team; five of the 75 Paralympic medals. First received behind closed doors in a reception room, where nearly five hundred people (families, club leaders, other athletes) had been invited, dressed in the official uniform of the tricolor delegation, the champions were sacrificed to the ritual of the palmas (rhythmic applause), The Marseillaisethen selfies taken with their fans.
On the applause meter, Léon Marchand and Antoine Dupont made the decibels explode. Very relaxed, in “your heart city”Crowned with his five Olympic medals (four of them gold), the first admitted to having “He worked hard and took a long time to come down from his dreams”. “I’ll see you in four years in Los Angeles”launched the world swimming star.
Behind the undisputed locomotives of swimmer and rugby player Guillaume Restes, goalkeeper of the Toulouse football club, and boxer Sofiane Oumiha, both of whom won silver in Paris, they walked for a long time on the podium installed in the square. Already Olympic runner-up in Rio 2016, the lightweight, who trains at his Boxoum club in Toulouse, arrived “Enjoy the magic of a city where we have always been welcomed and helped”.
“These successes go to the clubs”
Among the very young and very female audience, Elisa (25 years old) and Emma (24 years old) arrived at 5:00 p.m. to take their places in the front row. “This summer we became fans of Léon, but we watch all sports”slide the second one. The first one finds the champions. “Super cute guys and I hope they’re single…” The Games were also an opportunity for the duo to discover swimmer Ugo Didier, who trains in Cugnaux, on the outskirts, and who made his mark on the screen by winning three medals during the Paralympic Games. Much in demand, the interested party enjoys “This relative and new notoriety” before “Go on vacation for at least a month to really relax”. Accustomed to swimming in the pools alongside swimmers from the Dauphins du TOEC, Léon Marchand’s club, Ugo Didier took the opportunity to “meet friends you meet in Toulouse or during competitions”.
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